White Jacket by Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories by Herman Melville

White Jacket by Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories

Herman Melville

504 pages first pub 1849 (editions) user-added

fiction classics adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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The mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature--all of these prefigure his next novel, Moby-Dick. The symbolism of the color white, in...

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